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Average annual household energy bill hits £1,755.

£4.43bn energy debt, people can't afford it.

Since 2020 big energy companies made £514bn operating profit.

128000 a year die in fuel poverty

Profiteering fuels inflation, poverty.

Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.
Energy price cap warning as latest rise takes effect
The energy price cap remains vulnerable to gas price shocks and rising costs including green energy investment but households are being told they can still shield themselves from fluctuations ahead.
news.sky.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Britons ripped off by the energy industry. No govt curbs profiteering.

Nationalise energy, reduce inflation, poverty, business costs, rebuild economy.
October 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Revolving doors.

Thames Water paid £1m+ to corporate lobbyists part-owned by Starmer adviser.

The aim is to reach policymakers, keep TW private.

TW pays £200m a year to various advisers, cost borne by customers.

Public ownership would end this chicanery. No need to pay dividends, lobbyists.
Thames Water paid £1m-plus to corporate spooks firm part-owned by Starmer adviser
Exclusive: Hakluyt – formerly run by Varun Chandra – has been advising utilities company as it tries to avoid renationalisation
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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High energy prices leave 1m UK households behind on bills.

Energy debts doubled in 12 yrs.

6.1m households in fuel poverty. 128,000 people die in fuel poverty.

Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.

Can't build economy on poverty and death.

End profiteering. Nationalise.
Rise in energy prices leaves 1m UK households behind on bills
Energy debts have more than doubled in last 12 years, finds report, as Ofgem signals it will raise cap on bills
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Privatisation cult destroying UK.

UK gave away North Sea oil/gas, low fees/tax, collected $11 a barrel revenue, wasted on tax cuts for corporations/rich

Norway didn't, levied higher tax, got $30 a barrel.

Norway has $2trn sovereign fund. UK has economic crisis, still obsessed with privatisation
How successive government have created a new rentier economy
Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few.
leftfootforward.org
September 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Graph provides glimpse of England's housing problems.

Social housing vanished. 2m council homes sold. 40% ended-up with private landlords, increasingly corporations.

Housing seen as investment, high private rents, more poverty & need for benefits.
www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
September 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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🚨 GDP is up. But wages are low, rents soar & work is insecure.

Clive Lewis MP says what ministers won’t - "a quarter of private renters are handing over half or more of their income just to keep a roof over their heads.

This isn’t prosperity, it’s daylight robbery with a tenancy agreement"
Richness of life can’t be measured in GDP – what happened to joy?
GDP is up, but who’s better off? Clive Lewis, Norwich South MP, argues poverty is growing, wages lag, rents soar. And that’s not prosperity
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Free Speech’ Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference

The ban on covering the party’s annual gathering came despite Badenoch’s repeated commitment to “fight” for free speech and a free press

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press
bylinetimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings.

Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.

Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.

Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Thames Water to do fewer improvements under lenders' rescue plan.

More unplugged leaks, sewage in rivers.

Plan wants more cash from customers. No commitment on what shareholders will pay. No end to dividends.

Nationalisation is the only durable solution.
Thames Water to do fewer improvement projects under lenders’ new rescue plan
New consortium says infrastructure projects must be cut back to make beleaguered company viable again
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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£120bn a year of your money, nearly £300m a day, goes to just 150 billionaires as profit.

They pay almost no tax on it.

There's loads of money available.
September 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Thames Water creditors pledge more investment to try to seal rescue deal.

This can't dissolve the crisis.

TW would be run for profit & dividend extraction, the very reason for the crisis.

Capital would be raised from customers, but shareholders would keep resulting assets/income.
archive.ph/4yA01
Thames Water creditors pledge more investment to try to seal rescue deal
Bondholders also intend to inject more equity into the utility as it seeks to avert nationalisation
www.ft.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Dictator-esque Nigel Farage plans backing torture, jailing kids and paying jihadis.

Scrap UK human rights protections, lock up women and children, jeopardise peace in Northern Ireland, risk going to war with the church.

Opposes worker rights, supports fracking.

This after supporting Brexit.
7 dictator-esque Farage moments as he backs torture and paying Taliban
Launching his hard-right mass deportation plan, the Reform leader said he would scrap Britain’s human rights protections and put peace in Northern Ireland at risk
www.mirror.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Naziification of the UK.

Reform UK would:
Leave ECHR (join Russia and Belarus).
Repeal the UK Human Rights Act.
Disapply the 1951 Refugee convention. UN Convention Against Torture. the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention.
Cancel the Good Friday Agreement.

No one will be safe.
August 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Trump said: “a lot of people are saying ‘maybe we’d like a dictator", claims he isn’t one.

Since the election he has probably made more laws than Congress; thinks he is King, will rule forever

Sent soldiers into US cities, wants to annexe other countries.

A dictator did that in the 1930s.
Trump says he is not a dictator but insists many people think the US could use one
President criticized Democratic-led cities of being ungrateful for his administration deploying federal law enforcement to help curtail crime
www.independent.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
August 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Please think of us your betters.
Firstly we are losing our public schools as more & more close.
Now we are losing our Nannies as many are so expensive only billionaire wrap singers & Angela Rayner can afford them.
Jacob Rees-Mogg where are you?
This is a NATIONAL CRISIS!
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August 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Labour can’t agree on how to fight Farage. The party is split between Starmerites focused on delivery and a soft left demanding greater radicalism. @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Labour can’t agree on how to fight Farage
The party is split between Starmerites focused on delivery and a soft left demanding greater radicalism.
www.newstatesman.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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UK electricity/gas infrastructure companies have spent £490m a year less than budgeted on maintaining system reliability and preventing failures.

Gas privatised in 1986, electricity in 1990. Assets sweated.

Electricity/Gas distribution companies have the highest profit margins in the UK.
Profiting Amid the Energy Crisis: The Distribution Networks at the Heart of the UK's Gas and Electricity System
www.common-wealth.org
August 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Thames Water fined £104.5m for sewage dumping on 6 Aug 2024.
£18.2m for violating dividend payment rules on 19 Dec 2024.

TW to pay 20% (£24.5m) by 30 Sept 2025, the rest ... may be by 2030.

TW has 187 criminal convictions.

In a rentier economy corporations are indulged for criminal practices.
Thames Water agrees payment plan for £123m sewage and dividend fines
Ofwat gives struggling firm, which is trying to secure funding to avoid nationalisation, breathing space
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Big pharma picking our pockets.

Advanz, the sole supplier of liothyronine tablets (thyroid drug) in the UK, hiked price from £20 to £248 per box – an increase of over 1,110%.

Corporations devour everything, have no ethics.

Must return to Labour's 2019 manifesto - govt to produce generic drugs.
Court upholds CMA’s £99m fine on pharma over excessive NHS thyroid drug prices
The Court of Appeal has unanimously upheld the CMA’s finding that Advanz broke the law by overcharging the NHS for essential thyroid drug liothyronine.
www.gov.uk
August 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Royal Mail missing delivery targets after sale to Czech tycoon.

Regulator lets RM deliver 2nd-class letters every other weekday, none on Saturdays.

People pay more for worse service:
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail still missing delivery targets after sale to Czech tycoon Křetínský
Both first and second class mail lag behind Ofcom’s target in quarterly update after EP Group’s takeover
www.theguardian.com
August 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Farage has now said very clearly he will remove judges he does not approve of and abolish UK citizens' human rights. No-one at the BBC, Sky or ITV - or inside the government - seems to think it is worth highlighting. This is exactly what sleepwalking towards autocracy looks like.
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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WH Smith overstated profits by 40%, £30m.

Relates to accelerated recognition of supplier income - discounts from suppliers.

Seems to similar to the 2014 Tesco scandal. Carillon did the same.

The board, non-execs, audit cttee, internal/external auditors asleep.

Who benefitted from false numbers?
WH Smith shares plunge almost 40% after retailer’s £30m accounting error
Group cuts profit forecasts and launches review after mistake relating to North American arm
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM